Dear Friends,

Please do your best to stay cool and hydrated over the next few days.  It's going to be uncomfortably hot outside. In better news, our air conditioner was recently serviced and is working beautifully! (Hint, hint.) 

Note that we will be closed on Saturday, July 4th, in observance of Independence Day. Happy Birthday, America!

Pizza Box Challenge peeps may pick up their July kits starting Wednesday morning.

Thank you for being a part of our community. You make it possible for us to be here! 

-Marianne

Classes

Relax on the first Friday of the month (7/3) with fellow quilters for a virtual quilting bee. Settle into your favorite sewing space with your favorite Zoom-compatible technology for 2 hours of stitching and chatting. Everyone will have a chance to talk about what they’ve been working on and pose questions to the other quilters.

Learn to Longarm! Our Getting Started: Longarm Rental Basics is being offered on July 7th. This class is required for anyone who wants to rent our longarm machines.

If you want to use computerized stitching, you will also need to take Getting Started: ProStitcher Premium, also on the 7th.

Our next CQ Cares: Quilts for Kids workshop will be held on July 8th. All fabric is provided; just register and bring your machine with basic sewing supplies.

Join Linda and our Quilt of Valor group on July 13th to make a quilt for a veteran touched by war. There are seats available in the afternoon session. These quilts are tremendously important to the men and women who serve our country in the military. The group will make one quilt. 

Rod's Sharpening Service sharpens knives of all types (even serrated!), household and utility scissors, beauty salon and barbers' shears, and most garden tools. Their precision sharpening system ensures the correct angle for your knife, thus extending the life of the blade--it will cut just like new. They can also repair some defects such as chipped blades or bent tips (additional fees may apply). 

Fabric shears, pinking shears, household scissors:  $7.00
Beauty salon shears:  $25.00
Any type of knife:  $7.00
Small garden tools (less than 12 inches):  $7.00

DROP-OFF DAY: July 21          PICK-UP DAY: July 23

Starting on August 4th, Debra is once again teaching the ever-popular Metro Rings. Sew Kind of Wonderful makes it easy with their ruler and 2.5" strips.

Joan from Bucklebee Tools is coming back this fall to teach her "Happy Feet" sneaker class! We have spaces available on Friday, September 25. (Saturday is now sold out.) Spend the day making a pair of real sneakers, with quilted uppers and rubber soles. If you’ve been saving a bit of favorite fabric for a special project, Happy Feet sneakers are absolutely special. Your class fee covers your seat in class, instruction, soles, insoles, eyelets, instruction book, and cardstock pattern. Shoelaces will be available to purchase from the instructor.

Joan is once again offering a Sneakers Studio Session on Sunday, September 27. This session will not have any formal instruction, and is intended for those who have already made sneakers, and are looking for time and/or tools to make/finish more.

Don't forget that we offer Sandwiching Services (quilt basting) every month. Typically, four "appointments" are available each month.

Quilt Shows

Pennsylvania National Quilt Extravaganza

9/17/26 - 9/20/26

Faithful Circle Quilters Quilt Show

10/22/26 - 10/24/26

Everybody's Quilt Guild Fall Harvest of Quilts Show

11/6/26 - 11/8/26

CQ Cares (Community Sewing Projects)

We have free pillowcase kits available! We donate all pillowcases to Ryan's Case for Smiles, who in turn distributes them to children battling serious illness. Pick one up next time you're in the shop, then complete it and return on your schedule. Alternately, use your stash and any of the Million Pillowcase Project patterns.

We have placemat kits available at the shop; please stop by to pick up one (or two). For those who want to sew from their stash, click on the picture for the beginner-friendly Charm Square Placemats pattern, or you can use your own pattern.

Please return all completed placemats to Capital Quilts.
Thank you for your continued support of the Capital Quilts Cares program. 

We have free small kennel quilts kits available. These little quilts are sent to shelters who take in pets displaced by natural disasters. To quilters, they are a great beginner project, a use for leftover fabric, and a place to practice free motion skills. To use your stash, visit www.kennelquilts.com